Copyright Friendly Music and Image Search Tools

Despite common practice, the availability of images and sound on the World Wide Web does not provide the right to copy and reproduce for personal and/or professional reasons. The use of the images or sounds generally requires the permission of the creator or owner.

The following video tutorial demonstrates the importance of using legal images and videos as well as how to use them in imovie.

Stay Online: Find LEGAL Images and Videos with Creative Commons Search (and Download YouTube, etc, with Zamzar.com) by Clay Burell of Beyond School

A number of copyright-friendly archives are now available. The sources include government archives offering liberal use, media in the public domain, and collections of material posted by their creators with the definite purpose of sharing their work or seeing it grow and mix. Creative Commons is a license that allows creators to maintain a copyright while allowing users the right to reuse, reproduce, and change software or files.

Joyce Valenza posted the following list of her personal favourite copyright friendly archives:

Images

Double rainbows photo

Flickr's Creative Commons Pool: Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license
openphoto: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on search in the top bar
US Government Photos and Multimedia Most materials in the public domain, but read the disclaimers.
Wikimedia Commons: a database of 1,815,754 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Common Content: an open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content
Creative Commons Search Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, OWL Music Search, SpinXpress, and BlipTV to "find Creative Commons-licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free"
Pics4Learning Copyright friendly images for education
MorgueFile "provides the public and creative community with free raw photo materials"
flickrcc A great photo sharing site for creative commons photos. You can also edit photos from within the site
Flickr Storm - another Flickr search tool

10 Places to Find Free Images Online and Make Your Content More Linkable
There are some differences in the types of images that are available online, like some images are free and others are rights protected. Understanding the differences, as well as ten of the most popular places to find free images online, allows you to make your website more attractive.

Images Canada
All images can be reproduced, in print and/or digital format, for non-commercial purposes. The images must not be altered or manipulated in any way and proper " Credit " credit must accompany the images.

Internet for Image Searching
An excellent tutorial on how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently.

Music

Shambles: Sound Effects and Music Comprehensive portal collection by Chris Smith
Educational CyberPlayGround: Get Music Downloads Links to portals and useful guidance
Open Source Audio from the Internet Archive
Incompetech Royalty Free Music
Opsound Copyright friendly sound "Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine."
Partners in Rhyme: Free Sound Effects
Partners in Rhyme: Free Music Loops
Soundzabound Music Library
OneMusic - from the BBC - Over 1,000 free music samples
MusOpen - an online music library of copyright free music (public domain
Freesound The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.

Video, Images, Music and Sound

archive.org The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Freely download images, movies, music

It is essential to check individual licensing notices
before publishing on the Web or broadcasting!